¹⁰ “Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the people going with you, ¹¹ and you are to proclaim to them, ‘This is what the Lord of Armies says: I will shatter these people and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be mended. They will bury the dead in Topheth because there is no other place for burials.^{(A) 12} That is what I will do to this place—this is the declaration of the Lord—and to its residents, making this city like Topheth.